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R. P. BEATTY. Direction Card.

No. 226, 25. Patented April 27,1880.

N. Pam PHUTO-LITHOGRAPNER. WASHINGTON. Dv C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT P. BEATTY, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF OF HIS RIGHT TO JOHN H. HAULENBEEK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DIRECTION-CARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 226,825, dated April 2'7, 1880.

' Application filed September 15, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ROBERT P. BEATTY, of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a cer- 5 tain new and useful Improvement in Direction and other Cards, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is intended to be applied to such cards as are commonly secured to trunks,

cases, &c., to indicate the destination of such trunks or cases or the character of the goods contained therein.

My invention consists in a new article of manufacturenamely, adirection or other card having permanently attached to it any convenient number of fasteni n gs, each consisting of a headed pin, nail, or tack passed through the card and a washer fitting and secured upon the pin, nail, or tack at the side of the card opposite the head thereof, the card being clamped between the head of the pin, nail, or tack and the washer, the said washer also serving to secure the pin, nail, or tack in place.

In the accompanying drawings, Figurel rep- 2 5 resents a perspective view of the under side of a. card having my fastenings applied thereto and Fig. 2 represents a section of a portion of such card and a side view of the pin, nail, or tack and its attached washer.

Similar letters of reference designate correspoudin g parts in both figures.

A designates a card adapted to receive upo its face the direction of a trunk or case, or any other matter, and adapted to be secured to such 3 5 trunk or case. It is provided near its edge with said pin, nail, or tack securely in place, and consisting of a washer, O, fitting upon and secured to the pin, nail, or tack at the side of the card opposite the head thereof. 5

The pins, nails, or tacks may be variously made, and the washers may be secured thereto in various ways.

Ordinary wrought-iron tacks may be employed, and in such case the washers are secured by driving the tack, after its insertion throughrthe card, and bearing the washer upon it, into a hole in a steel die which is slightly smaller than the largest diameter of the tack. The sharp edges of such die will cut thesharp corners of the body of the tack and raise a burr, which is turned over the washer, as clearly represented in Fig.2. The pins, nails, or tacks might, h0W6\"61,'b(- otherwise shaped and the washers secured to them in various other ways.

The pins, nails, or tacks might have the portions which enter the wood notched or serrated in any way, so as to hold the same firmly in the wood.

Although my invention is here represented as applied to small cards, it might with equal advantage be applied to large cards, calendars, and stiff card-board posters of various kinds.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A new article of manufacture consisting of a direction or other card having permanently attached to it any convenient number of fastenings, each consisting of a headed pin, nail, or tack passing through the card and a washer 7 5 fitting and secured upon the pin, nail, or tack at the side of the card opposite the head thereof, substantially as herein specified.

R. P. BEATTY.

Witnesses:

HENRY '1. BROWN, FREDK. HAYNES. 

